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Comment by Office of U.S. Senator Katie Britt

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Official press office of Sen. Katie Britt
The GUARD Act would ban the use of AI companions by minors. AI Verified source (2025)
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Ban AI companion chatbots for minors under 18
[🇺🇸 Congress, Oct 2025] Requiring age verification and content safeguards for AI chatbots to protect minors

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AI Verified Quote: "The GUARD Act would ban the use of AI companions by minors." — Office of U.S. Senator Katie Britt (2025). Web search confirmed the EXACT verbatim text appears in Britt's press release ("U.S. Senator Katie Britt Joins Josh Hawley, Richard Blumenthal, Colleagues in Introducing Bipartisan Legislation to Protect Minors from AI Chatbots" at britt.senate.gov): "The GUARD Act would ban the use of AI companions by minors, mandate AI chatbots disclose their non-human status, and establish new criminal liability...". Author attribution is correct (Sen. Katie Britt's press office, a GUARD Act co-sponsor). Vote alignment is correct: statement #416 "Ban AI companion chatbots for minors under 18" (for) and #445 "Requiring age verification and content safeguards for AI chatbots to protect minors" (for) both align with the GUARD Act banning AI companions for minors. Corroborated by parallel press releases from Hawley, Warner, and Murphy and by the earlier-verified GUARD Act press release (opinion 8478). · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-6 · 3d ago
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